Prince Charles: The North Polar ice cap is melting
so fast. But what seems to me to be important is that some of the
effects we are witnessing now are happening twice as fast as scientists
were predicting just five years ago.

George Bush: A report issued earlier this year by
the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded both
that global temperatures are rising, (and) that this is caused largely
by human activities.

Rajendra Pachauri: And if you look at the 4th assessment report of the IPCC, we’ve assessed several stabilization scenarios.

Yvo de Boer: In 2010, there could already be as
many as 50 million environmentally displaced persons due to climate
change, desertification and deforestation.

Henriettta H. Fore: Experts tell us that the situation underlying the crisis is not a temporary one.

Robert Zoellick: And it is getting more and more difficult every day.

Ken Livingstone:… and there is no guarantee that human civilization can survive.

Maneka Gandhi: Unless we change our food choices,
nothing else matters, because it is meat that is destroying most of our
forests, it is meat that pollutes the waters, it is meat that is
creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to
hospitals. So it is the first choice for any body who wants to save the
Earth.

David Miller: The food we eat and how it is grown and the kind of food we eat matters a lot.

Ronan Lee: Everything comes with an environmental price, beef production in particular.

David Miller: I do eat a lot of vegetarian meals; I think that’s something we can all do.

Andrew Bartlett: That’s one of the easiest ways that we can make an immediate and quite substantial impact.

Ronan Lee: There are some wonderful environmental benefits in terms of taking a couple of steps lower down the food chain.

Hilary Benn: And the choice we face is a really simple one actually.

Marianne Thieme: Just for one day or more than that, become a vegetarian.

Condoleezza Rice: Let us approach climate change not simply as a looming future threat, but as a present opportunity to work together.

Antonio Villaraigosa: The time for action is now.

Hilary Benn: What can I, what can the government do to help? What can you do to help? How can we do this together?

Gavin Newsom: And it’s about what we do from this point on and this point forward.

Matt Petersen: Individuals can take action.

Helen Clark: We have to play our part.

Kofi Annan: And as individuals through the choices we make, the purchases we make…

Dr. James Hansen: If we once understand this and take the necessary actions, then we actually have a much better situation.

Rajendra Pachauri: …and if you eat less meat, you will be healthier and so will the planet!

Dalai Lama: Then, there’s some kind of realization of individual responsibility to take care of this planet.

Richard Branson: Our generation has inherited an
incredibly beautiful world and it’s really in our hands whether our
children inherit the same world.

Ken Livingstone: That is our duty, so that our children can have a decent quality of life on this planet.

Prince Charles: We cannot be anything less than courageous and revolutionary in our approach to tackling climate change.

Rajendra Pachauri: It’s a win-win situation if you eat less meat!

Hilary Benn: Living in harmony with the natural
world is the only way for the future, 9 billion people, one planet, one
chance to get it right.

Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung Bin: Today, if we want
to reduce CO2 emissions, the vegetarian lifestyle is absolutely a very
effective way. The difference between a vegetarian diet and a meat diet
is the reduction in CO2 emissions, which is almost 3 times as high with a
meat diet. Furthermore, the vegetarian diet is very good for our
health.